Dare Obasanjo's WebLog

At Microsoft one of our goals in developing software is that backwards compatibility when moving from one version of software to the next is high priority. However in certain cases the old behavior may be undesirable enough that we break compatibility...

Taken from the an article on TheServerSide.com entitled Microsoft Responds to Sun’s Web Service Benchmarks In a paper published last month, Sun claimed that Java based web services outperform .NET based web services both in throughput and...

A little while ago some members of our team experimented various ways to reduce the Relational<->Objects<->XML (ROX) impedance mismatch by adding concepts and operators from the relational and XML (specifically W3C XML Schema) world into an...

I recently got a number of bug reports that in certain situations RSS Bandit would report a proxy authentication error when fetching certain RSS feeds over the Web when connecting through a proxy server. It seemed most feeds would work fine but a particular...

About a week ago my article Designing Extensible, Versionable XML Formats appeared on XML.com . However due to a “pilot error” on my end I didn't send the final draft to XML.com. By the time I realized my mistake the article was already live...

Today Arpan (the PM for XML query technologies in the .NET Framework) and I were talking about features we'd like to see on our 'nice to have' list for the Orcas release of the .NET Framework. One of the things we thought would be really nice to see in...